Literary usage of Flotes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)"... cylinder-pegs which open and Tutus, to the exclusion of amateur or mediocre
performers, or coarse machinery. an orchestrion consisting solely of flotes, ..."

3.Freemasonry in the Holy Land: Or, Handmarks of Hiram's Builders; Embracing by Robert Morris (1872)"THE BAT OF THE flotes. The land of patriarchs and prophets; the land of apostles,
and martyrs, and confessors; the land of Emmanuel,—the HOLY LAND ! ..."